Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-10-06
DAkoTAlTEMs.

Rev. ]. j. Hull, or Valley Springs, |
has baptised, this summer, thirty-two
converts.
The Manitoba is running trains into |
Watertown, and hard coal there is only
$3.50 per ton.
Hundreds of barrels of wine have
been made in Dakota this year from
native grapes.
John b. Finch has closed his lectur-
ing tour in Dakota, having left Thurs
day for Boston.
Two new papers will soon be started
in Sioux Falls, making in all ten week
ly papers and two dailies.
In 1860 Dakota produced 945 bushels
of wheat. In 1887 it will probably ag-
gregate 60.0OO0O0 bushels.
The Gettysburg Herald celebrated
the completion of the railroad to the
line of Potter county by using red ink.
From a shot put off in the Iron Hill
shaft at Deadwood, upwards of 40 tons
of ore was broken that will average
$1,000 per ton.
Great preparations are being made to
boom Oakes, the junction in DickeY
county Of the Northern Pacific, North
wertern and the Minneapolis Pacific.
The Watertown land Improvement
company has paid $4,000 for the Spicer
| fnr TO- hn f,{,
transaction in the history of Codington
county.
y twine factory manufacturing
binding twine from Dakota weeds is
the latest movement at Fargo. 1t is
said such an enterprise will be estab-
lished there.
The Yankton board of trade has just
issued a circular setting forth partic-
ularly the value of Yanllton's water
power and inviting the attention Of
manufacturers to that point.
Great CONSERVATION prevails among
the farmers on railroad lands in the in
demnity limits, near Hlllsboro, as squat
pSio oAS oNSopslIS9 oolIlC VI viz lllpSD
valuable lands in the county.
The Sisters of Charity at the Grand
Forks convent have been presented by
citizens With an elegant double carriage
and phaeton with two sets of harness,
double and single, the whole outfit cost
ing over $780,
The Philadelphia Press says that
Editor Lewis, alias q. L. Volkmar, of
Milbank, who is now confined in Moya-
mensing prison on charge of arson COM
mittcd ten years before he went to Da-
kota, is sure OF acquittal.
Woonsocket has on eye open for an
oat meal mill, and the News says MIR.
Christie of the Parker mill offers to
build as good a plant as the Parker
mill if Woonsocket will take 5000 of
stock, he taking the balance.
a letter has beer received by Hon. b.
Caulfeld, at Sturgis, from Senator
Dawes, stating that he will push his
bill in congress for the opening Of the
Sioux reservation, as he considers it
necessary to the admission of Dakota
as a state.
Early Saturday morning Tillson's
livery barn at Mitchell burned to the
ground with twenty head of horses, in
cluding $500 blooded colt and run
ming horse in attendance at the fair.
The fire was undoubtedly incendiary, a
number of suspicious circumstances
having developed.
, The Dakota School OF Mines at Rapid
, City commences its fall term October 4.
: Prospects good. Talented scientists
from the east have been placed in
! charge of the departments. The new
| metallurgical laboratory is nearing
3 completion and the reduction machin-
cry will be set up within two or three
weeks.
The disappearance of M. V. Miller, OF
Washington. and president of the board
: of trustees of the agricultural college at
Brookings, is still the theme of much
: comment. Every effort to learn his
whereabouts has been unsuccessful
His affairs are in a peculiar condition
and his proceedings give evidence that
all is not right.
). w. kidder has got about quarter
of an acre of corn, that the ears start
from the stock feet from the ground
: The ears are fourteen inches long and
very large, and the kernels are larger
. than a mans thumb nail. The seed
came from the department of agricul.
ture at Washington and was called y el.
low King. 1t is dent corn. Now who
can beat this s?-Vermillion Republican
l a wonderful flow of water was struck
in the artesian well at Frankfort, Wed.
nesday, at depth of 900 feet. A foul
; and half inch strepm is being thrown
fifteen feet in the air and it looks like q
geyser. Such was the force of the water
that the drill had to be held down while
being taken out, else it must have been
forced through the top of the tower. l,
t is estimated that the pressure will be be
4 tween 200 and 800 pounds to the square
t inch, and that the discharge is 1900 gal
: Ions per minute. Messrs. Swan & Co.
. contractors, say it is the largest flow
J. they have seen in the territory. Th'
j water is soft and sweet.
Nellie King. the female detective. al
: rived at Aberdeen Thursday. She say
she in in the employ of Kingsford detec
tive association, of New York city, tha
+ she came to Sphinx county for an $500
horse which hau been stolen. She tol,
areporter that she had the horse a
Aberdeen. Miss King looks about 2
5, years old. has keen blue eyes aud rathe